Fitness: Indoor summer workouts for the off-season

9:02 PM,
Jul. 1, 2013

Written by

Magic Benton
Special to The News-Press

We're lucky to be living in Florida. We get to play outside almost anytime of the year. When people living up north are stuck indoors during the colder months, we Floridians are outside playing tennis, fishing, kayaking, golfing, jogging and biking.

When the temperature rises, though, outdoor exercise in Florida can get dangerous. Mosquitoes, lightning and sunscreen in your eyes are just some of the pitfalls of an outdoor workout in the Florida heat.

From now through late September, most of us are either squeezing in an outdoor jog before sunrise or forgoing it altogether. Rather than skip a ...